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• Road built on Hasandin mountain for military post and mining work 

  A road is being built on Hasandin mountain for a military outpost, but villagers say it is also being used for mining activities and is causing environmental damage.
• The state plunders nature to build a military base in Hesandin amid protests by local people 

  The people in Hesandin region, who fought against mining activities last year, are now fighting against the construction of a military base.
• Ecology Association plants saplings in Sur  

  The Ecology Association planted saplings in Sur together with ecologists coming from France.
• Activists oppose cyanide mine: We will not allow this plunder 

  Activists protested Cengiz Holding’s cyanide-based gold mine, vowing not to give up even a single tree.
• Mesopotamia Ecology Movement: We will work for social peace 

  The Mesopotamia Ecology Movement issued a written statement regarding Abdullah Öcalan’s call.
• Irmez: Gabar Mountain is being devastated 

  A large-scale environmental destruction in Gabar Mountain continues under the pretext of oil extraction. DEM Party MP Irmez said that the oil extracted from Gabar meets only one percent of Turkey’s total energy needs, but the environmental cost is huge.
• Inan: The Turkish state aims to depopulate Kurdistan by destroying nature 

  Amed Bar Association’s Head of the Urban and Environmental Commission, Ahmet Inan, said that mining activities are being used as a means to depopulate Kurdistan and added that silence in the face of this destruction is not an option.
• TEV-EKO calls for action for Tishrin: The purposeful destruction of ecological resources is a crime 

  “The purposeful destruction of ecological resources is a crime against humanity. These attacks constitute war crimes. By destroying resources, the right to existence of generations yet to come is being taken away,” said TEV-EKO.
• Two-day ecology workshop in Freiburg ends 

  A two-day ecology workshop by the Kurdish European Association KCDK-E took place in Freiburg over the weekend. The working meeting discussed how and according to which principles the fight against ecocide can be organized.
• KCDK-E to hold its first ecology workshop in Freiburg 

  KCDK-E is organizing its first ecology workshop today and tomorrow, 22 December, in Freiburg.
• Ecocide in southern Kurdistan 

  The destruction of nature in Kurdistan by the Turkish state is part of a concept of annihilation in its special form of warfare. The war strategy tested in northern Kurdistan is also being systematically implemented in the south.
• Turkey plunders nature in Kurdistan 

  The Turkish state continues its invasion attacks against the Medya Defense Areas, is also plundering the nature of Kurdistan. One of the places where hundreds of trees were burned and uprooted as a result of the bombardments is the Sergelê area.
• ÖHD Amed Ecology Commission condemns ecocide in Cudi and Gabar Mountains 

  The ÖHD Amed Ecology Commission condemned the ecocide in Cudi and Gabar.
• Ecology Board: Turkish attacks have caused great damage to the ecology in North-East Syria 

  Cizîr Canton Ecology Board stated that the attacks by the occupying Turkish state has caused great damage to the ecology in North-East Syria, calling on the international community to take action against this ecological destruction.
• Internal Security Forces' checkpoints get green 

  In the autonomous region of Northern and Eastern Syria, the Asayîş checkpoints are becoming more colorful. The Ecology Committee of the Democratic Autonomous Administration has decided to green the checkpoints.
• Turkish state destroys forests in Şırnak countryside 

  The Turkish state destroys forests in the countryside of Şırnak province.
• Mining company in Dicle is destroying life and nature 

  Residents of Pirajman neighbourhood in Amed’s Dicle district, who documented the pollution caused by mining with the videos they shot, called on people to ‘stop the killers of nature’.
• Bakırhan: We struggle against a government that is hostile to forests, rivers and mountains 

  Speaking at an ecology conference in Balıkesir, DEM Party Co-Chair Tuncer Bakırhan said, “Let's get rid of this government that is dragging us into the abyss and bringing Turkey to the brink of destruction.”
• Protest against mining project in Lice: People are forced to migrate 

  During the protest against the mining project in Lice, it was pointed out that the aim was to change the demography and force the people to migrate.
• AKP government's 22 years of ecological destruction - II 

  Geothermal power plants (GPPs), the first examples of which were seen during the AKP rule, have become increasingly widespread within the framework of rent and plunder policies.
• AKP government's 22 years of ecological destruction - I  

  During the 22 years of AKP rule, the nature of Turkey and Kurdistan has been opened to the rent and plunder of capital. One of the most crucial headings of the ecological disaster identified with the AKP government is the HEPPs.
• Government ‘tender’ for killing endangered wild goats 

  The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's 14th Regional Directorate Van Provincial Branch Directorate issued a tender to ‘officially’ hunt endangered wild goats.
• Nature resists ecocide in Şirnak 

  Trees that have been burned and cut down for years for "security" reasons in the Besta region of Şirnak are growing again.
• Vineyards in Raqqa and Tabqa, an important source of income  

  In the Raqqa and Tabqa cantons, vineyards are considered important as a source of income, and help meet the needs of families.
• Mining activities in Golan threaten the ecosystem and people's lives 

  The mining projects carried out by Koza Holding in the Golan district of Ardahan pose serious threats to both the ecosystem and the local population.